Impossible Quotes

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Henry Louis Gates

Truth, Business, Sad

It is certain because it is impossible.
Tertullian

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
Lewis Mumford

Science, Nothing, Short

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Nothing, Person

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
Louis C. K.

Separate, Bosses, Tours

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome

Work, Enjoy, Unless

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood

Age, Alone, Live

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
William Tyndale

Truth, Mother, Eyes

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

Good, Made, Two

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.
Cathy Guisewite

Children, Parents, Hard

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
William J. Clinton

Struggle, Everything, Kids

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi

Real, Anyone, Express

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt

Character, Betray, Once

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter

Yourself, Hear, Hands

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
Billy Joel

Hard, Living, Almost

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins

Thought, Achieve, Precisely

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres

Democracy, Made, Television

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Pierre Corneille

Father, Nothing

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene

Life, Trust, Through

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

Give, Friends, Enough

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Paul Valery

Poetry, Everything, Said

Love without conversation is impossible.
Mortimer Adler

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
Ann Coulter

Today, Political, Trying

Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner

God, Existence, Holmes

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
Ben Okri

Politics, Art, Creativity

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad Iqbal

Understand, Why, Modern

If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
Danica McKellar

Money, Smart, Kiss

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
Arnold Newman

Perfect, Put, Able

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann

Truth, Art, Reality

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